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  • This was a sexagonal apartment, situated immediately over a small artificial lake, through which flowed the rivulet before mentioned.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

  • Sexagonal Kite. the bow kite, Fig. 37, and the sexagonal structure, Fig. 38, the latter form affording an especially large surface.

    Aeroplanes 1915

  • POSTAGE -- POSTAGE at the sides, the top tablet being left blank for the name of the Colony, and a space for the sexagonal tablet of value at bottom also being left blank.

    Gambia Frederick John Melville 1911

  • There was a turretted sexagonal entrance at the corner facing the Avenue and Twenty-third Street, and another at the northern end of the building.

    Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

  • This cartonnage is impressed all over the arms, shoulders and head-dress, with a reticulated sexagonal pattern, which gives the surface the appearance of being honey-combed.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • Each little sexagonal hollow is painted blue, the groundwork being of a vivid yellow.

    Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

  • The massive house front, and the walls fencing the three sides of the square enclosure before it, with the sexagonal, pepper-pot summer-houses at either corner, looked pale and unsubstantial in that diffused, unearthly light.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • Across the square lawn -- whereon the Clown had found death some thirteen years before -- peacocks led home their hens and chicks to roost within the two sexagonal, pepper-pot summer-houses that fill in the angles of the red-walled enclosure.

    The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

  • Norman era are not so frequently covered with sculptured figures, though such sometimes occur; they are sexagonal, septagonal, or octagonal in shape; and the different styles are easily ascertained by the architectural decorations, mouldings, tracery, and panel-work, with which they are more or less covered.

    The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846

  • Annexed to Sunningwell Church, Berkshire, is a singular porch or building, sexagonal in form, at the angles of which are projecting columns of the Ionic order supporting an entablature.

    The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam 1846

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